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• 01.0 introduction
• 02.0 the Arduino way
• 03.0 the Arduino workshop
• 04.0 workshop exercises
• 05.0 credits

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 01.0 introduction
• about Arduino
• when/how arduino started
• Arduino target user

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about Arduino
Arduino is an open-source physical computing platform
based on a simple i/o board and a IDE integrated deve-
lopment environment that implements the Processing/
Wiring language.

Arduino can be used to develop stand-alone interactive

objects and installation or can be connected to software
on your computer.

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when/how Arduino started

The first Arduino board was produced on January 2005.

The project is the result of the collaboration of many

people but in the beginning the need of such a board
was thought by David Cuartielles and Massimo Banzi.
They are both teacher of physical computing and were
used to built different boards for each course to teach to
their students how to create interactive prototype.

They met at Interaction Design Institute Ivrea and

agreed on the spot on many ideas and on the need to
built a standar cheep board as a teaching tool.

The rest of the team is composed by David Mellis, who

is responsible for building the software engine, Tom
Igoe and Gianluca Martino.

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Arduino target user

artists and designer

One relevant feature of Arduino is the limited range of

programming skills required to work with it.

Inside the Arduino software there is an engine that

translates the high level, more “user friendly”, pro-
gramme into something understandable by the micro-
processor.

As a matter of fact the Integrated Development Environ-

ment uses a language similar to Java while the board
is programmed in C, a language that requires more
sophisticated programming skills.

This enables people like artists and designers to quickly

create prototypes to communicate their ideas.

Building complicated prototypes requires more time

and more skills but this can all be learned as long as
the initial phase is facilitated through a workshop.

The low cost of the Arduino board is an important

quality for the Team.

The cost of an Arduino board is around 20 EUR + VAT

and with other 30/50 EUR it’s possible to buy a good
selection of sensors, some LEDs, a breadboard, wires
and a multimetre. With less than 75 EUR is therefore
possible to have a complete kit to experiment and cre-
ate prototypes with.

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 02.0 the Arduino way
• introduction
• tinkering
• collaboration/community
• software tools

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introduction
the Arduino way

The Arduino philosophy is based on making design

rather then talking about it. It is a constant search for
faster and more accurate ways to build better proto-
types. We have explored many prototyping techniques
and developed ways of thinking with our hands.
The classic engineering relies on a strict process for
getting from A to B while the arduino way is based on
maybe getting lost in the way and finding C instead.
This is the process of tinkering that we are so fond
about; playing with the medium in an open-ended way,
finding the unexpected. In this search we also selected
a number of software packages that enable that pro-
cess, this constant manipulation of the software and
hardware medium.

Another concept we developed is the “opportunistic

prototyping”: why spend time and energy building from
scratch, a process that requires time and profound
technical knowledge, while we can take already made
devices and hack them in order
to exploit the hard work done by large companies and
good engineers?
This become evident in Ivrea where the heritage of
olivetti is represented by a few junkyards where com-
puter parts, electronic components and devices of any
sort have been dumped after the demise of the italian
company. We could buy those devices for a few euros
and hack them into out prototypes dramatically short-
ening the loop.

The last element is the community. Engaging people

and push them to share by being the first to share.
We’re standing
on the shoulders of the giants of opensource here.

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Tinkering
the “MacGyver” style

From the “Tinkering” exhibition at the Exploratorium,

San Francisco:

“Tinkering is what happens when you try something you

don’t quite know how to do, guided by whim, imagina-
tion, and curiosity.

When you tinker, there are no instructions - but there

are also no failures, no right or wrong ways of doing
things. It’s about figuring out how things work and
reworking them.

Contraptions, machines, wildly mismatched objects

working in harmony - This the stuff of tinkering.”

This definition says a lot about the Arduino way of

prototyping. Actually there is not a manual on how to do
things but a reference collection of samples that people
can modify and combine with other examples to learn
about the logic of the programme and the board.

It’s a “hands on” way of working in which even junk

becomes a source for learning and building prototypes.
The reuse of material from other fields is an other big
knowledge and material source. Learning how to do
things by looking how other things work and can be
hacked.

Circuit bending and patching are two key words in this

learning school.

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Keyboard hacks are an other example of the Arduino

way. Its circuit is perfect for creating an input device to
communicate with the computer.

Hacking it is extremely easy, once the keyboatd is

opened and the protection layer of the contacts re-
moved with a piece of sandpaper it’s ready to become
an input device with as many inputs as the number of
keys on the keyboard.

Toys are a great source of cheap components to play

with. Many toys have simple sensor that react to light,
pressure and proximity. Often toys also have little
motors, LEDs, little speakers, .... all small electronic
and mechanical elements that can be removed and
used in an other contests.

A reference with regard to this is the “LOW TECH

SENSORS AND ACTUATORS” initiative for artists and
architects

by Usman Haque [www.haque.co.uk]

and Adam Somlai-Fischer [www.aether.hu]
http://lowtech.propositions.org.uk/

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collaboration/community
An outstanding quality of the Arduino project is the
community that was created as was proved by the Hon-
orary Mentions in the Prix Ars Electronica-
International Competition for CyberArts 2006 in the
Digital Communities section (http://www.aec.at/en/prix/
communities/winners2006.asp)

From the early beginning Arduino based itself on the

collaboration of people as an open-source project, a
value they are very proud of.

In simple words, open source means that the code for

the programme is public and poeple can contribute to it
downloading the software, modifying it, improving it and
then sending it back.
Forum for questions and opinions are opened in many
languages even if the english and spanish community
are, so far, the most active ones.
(http://www.arduino.cc/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl)

Arduino wants to develop internationally but at a local

level. That’s one of the reason why workshops are
being organized around Europe, in order to create local
groups to spread the knowledge from.

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software tools
There are different software programmes which
Arduino boar can interface with.

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This wide flexibility of collaboration with different

software packages provide the possibility for the user
to work with their favorite software and the most suited
one depending on the prototype or performance being
created.

In the official website in the playground section (http://

www.arduino.cc/playground/) there is a number of
pages dedicated to the interfacing of Arduino to various
softwares.

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 03.0 the workshop
• introduction
• Arduino today
• reference projects
• “hans on”

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introduction
The first slides shown at the workshop introduce the
concept of interaction design giving possible definitions
of it.

Interaction Design is :
•the creation of meaningful relationships between
us (humans) and artifacts
• the creation of beautiful relationships between
us (humans) and artifacts
• the creation of controversial relationships between
us (humans) and artifacts

Then it’s briefly summarised how it developed in time:

70’s User Centered Design
80’s Human Computer Interface
90’s Ubiquitous Computing
00’s Palpable Computing

Interface design and physical computing are the two

sides of interaction design.

Designing through prototypes is a central concept in the

Arduino way: once you have an idea and start creating
the prototype, it develops, changes, transforms into
something else you would have not thought about be-
fore starting. Sometimes even mistakes can be usefull
and lead to
interesting discoveries and solutions.
Prototypes don’t need to be perfect, they can be rough
and physical (paper, cardboard, wood, plastics
functional or semi-functional) or imaginary
(through experiential prototypes on video). The impor-
tant is that the concept goes through and is
communicated to the audience.

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Arduino today
The Arduino system can be reasumed as follows:

the 3 basic parts:

• the circuit board
• the IDE Integrated Development Environment
(Software)
• the reference collection of examples

Arduino practice can be divided into 4 field of action:

• Education: in which a series of workshop are
organised to spread the knowledge of Arduino.
• Research: The development and improvement is
going on thanks to the research of the team them-
selves and to the many external people
collaborating at the open-source project.
• Commercial projects: the board reached a good level
of reliability and is now starting to be implemented into
objects or used for installation at a commercial level.
• Competition: at design festivals and fairs,
competitions are organised for people to create the
better prototype in the shortest time or with the “Junk”
they manage to collect in a day.

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reference projects
some student and commercial projects

** 2006 Arduino.youFoldIt by Bjorn Wahlstrom

shown at FDC
this is the exhibition material from Bjorn Wahlstrom,
a designer from Malmo, Sweden. As part of his final
thesis in Material and Virtual Design he created a
collection of foldable shapes aiming to offer an alterna-
tive to wrap electronic prototypes in cardboard.

In the pictures we see:

- the Arduino serial KIT
- the box where to place the board in
- an example of a digital sandclock made by Bjorn
Wahlstrom in collaboration with Thomas Ness and Per
Nilsson
- an example of a musical instrument composed by
three different foldable structures

** Interaction Design Course K3

A group of students make a game interface based on

handling a puppet. The toy is connected to a flash game
where the character will have to fight the dark side of
the force.

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** 2006 FlirstShirt Basel january 2006

by Matthias Rohrbach, Simon Stotz, Simon Palmieri,
and Valerie Lau

Text by Valeri Lau

FLIRT SHIRT
“In the heat of the night, when everybody makes his way
to the bars and discotheques,it’s the perfect time to
wear our interactive flirt shirt. As you arrive at the club,
you see all the sexy people ready to make this night a
night to remember. The air is filled with lovely flavoured
fragrances of lovely looking girls, you can’t wait to try
your luck. But as the night gets older your voice gets
weaker. The music is loud, you can’t understand a word
and when you finally gained enough courage by drinking
enough alcohol it seems like you won’t have a chance to
flirt with that beautiful girl at the bar without screaming
at her. But don’t worry, this is exactly the moment, our
flirt shirt goes into action: Just turn on the LCD on the
shirt, choose the symbol you want to display by spinning
the clock like input device and without a single word
you will have caught her eyes. Heart, dollar signs, swiss
crosses, your phone number, the knight rider light
animation and a popping bottle of champaign are the
symbols, with which you can try to capture her heart.

Technical stuff:
LCD display: we redefined some of the preset
characters on the display to create the symbols and
animations.
Clock like input device: We used a digital potentiometer
to be able to go back and forth in the list of symbols.
By connecting everything to two arduino boards
correctly with a hell of a bunch of wires and having
written an elegant code, we finally made it work.
Tadaa. “

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** 2005 hip to be square

by Andreas Karlsson, Mikel Jelm, Sebastian Ibarra

This is an MP3 player activated through the combination

of boxes placed inside the shelf. There are 512 possible
combinations, thus there are 512 mp3 songs that could
be chosen. The interaction modes could be shifted from
pure on-off to several flow modes.

** 2006 robots for education in Spain

by Juan Carlos Alonso

JC Alonso is a teacher at a secondary school in

Mostoles, near Madrid. He is also one of the initiators of
Dorkbot Madrid. He is interested in teaching his tech-
nology classes using state of the art of contemporary
technical tools. He is building robots out of scrap, old
electronic components, roll-on deodorant balls, and
arduino boards.
He presented this robots as part of the Interactivos
workshop in Spain (www.interactivos.org) during a
special session oriented to secondary school teachers.
One of his constructions was featured at Barcelona’s
Electronic Music Festival Sonar 2006, as part of the
catalogue announcing a talk about Arduino at
Sonarama, the space for experimental music.

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** 2005 Fallen Robotpic China

Fallen is a chinese engineering student that approached

us asking for arduino boards to make a technology
migration at this university. After we sent him a couple
of boards for him to try out as a present, he came back
with this collection of pictures of a 100-feet robot
moving on his living room’s floor. He controls his robot
via Bluetooth using a PDA or a flash interface on his
computer. All the intelligence is made with Arduino.

** 2006 Follow the number game by Igor

Gonzalez

Igor is an engineer working at Telefonica, Spain. In

his spare time he likes to design prototypes for kids
to play with. In this case he made a small machine to
show kids how to count. After counting the amount of
lamps lighted up on the box, kid will have to dial up the
number.

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“hands on”
Now we are ready to start the practical part.
It’s structured with a serie of exercises in increasing
difficulty by which the logic of the software and the
board circuit is tought.

The exercises are the following. Before going to the next

exercise, Massimo and David check that everybody has
understood and managed to get the application
working.

The exercises can be listed as follow:

Installing the application

Blinking an LED
What is electricity
The Breadboard
Reading a Pushbutton
Trying out different On/Off Sensors
Use the light sensor instead of the pushbutton
Analogue inputs
Try different Resistive sensors
Serial Communication
One day exercise
Analogue Output (PWM)
Driving bigger loads (motors etc)
Complex sensors
Talking to software

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 04.0 the exercises
• installing the software
• Arduino board
• exercises
• final prototype

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Arduino board
subtitle

Starting clockwise from the top center:

• Analog Reference pin (orange)

• Digital Ground (light green)
• Digital Pins 2-13 (green)
• Digital Pins 0-1/Serial In/Out - TX/RX (dark green)
- These pins cannot be used for digital i/o (digitalRead
and digitalWrite) if you are also using serial communi
http://www.arduino.cc cation (e.g. Serial.begin).
• Reset Button - S1 (dark blue)
• In-circuit Serial Programmer (blue-green)
• Analog In Pins 0-5 (light blue)
http://www.arduino.cc
• Power and Ground Pins (power: orange, grounds:
light orange)
• External Power Supply In (9-12VDC) - X1 (pink)
• Toggles External Power and USB Power (place
jumper on two pins closest to desired supply) - SV1
(purple)
• USB (used for uploading sketches to the board and
for serial communication between the board and the
computer; can be used to power the board) (yellow)

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THE CODE:
exercises
(some examples)
/* Blinking LED
* turns on and off a light emitting diode(LED)
* connected to a digital • the blinking LED
* pin, in intervals of 2 seconds.
* Ideally we use pin 13 on the Arduino
* board because it has a resistor attached to it, The first exercises is about making an LED blink. It’s a
* needing only an LED very basic exercise but necessary to understand the or-
* Created 1 June 2005
der in which to proceed and get to know different parts
* copyleft 2005 DojoDave <http://www.0j0.org>
of the board.
* http://arduino.berlios.de
* based on an orginal by H.
* Barragan for the Wiring i/o board
A first process to get confident with is the following:
*/ -compile (to check that the programme is written right)
-reset the board(with the button on the board)
int ledPin = 13; // LED connected to digital pin 13 -export the programme to the board

void setup() As a microcontroller, Arduino doesn’t have any

{ pre-established output devices. Willing to provide
pinMode(ledPin, OUTPUT); // sets the digital pin as output newcomers with some help while debugging programs,
}
it is proposed the use of one of the board’s pins
void loop() plugging a LED that we will make blink indicating the
{
right functionality of the program.
digitalWrite(ledPin, HIGH); // sets the LED on
delay(1000); // waits for a second
digitalWrite(ledPin, LOW); // sets the LED off
delay(1000); // waits for a second LEDs have polarity, which means they will only light up
} if you orient the legs properly. The long leg is typically
positive, and should connect to pin 13. The short leg
connects to GND; the bulb of the LED will also typically
have a flat edge on this side. If the LED doesn’t light up,
trying reversing the legs (you won’t hurt the LED if you
plug it in backwards for a short period of time).

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• What is electricity
The three most basic units in electricity are voltage (V),
current (I) and resistance (r). Voltage is measured in
volts, current is measured in amps and resistance is
measured in ohms.
A neat analogy to help understand these terms is a
system of plumbing pipes. The voltage is equivalent to
the water pressure, the current is equivalent to the flow
rate, and the resistance is like the pipe size.
There is a basic equation in electrical engineering that
states how the three terms relate. It says that the cur-
rent is equal to the voltage divided by the resistance.
I = V/r

Electricity is a form of energy. Electricity is the flow of

electrons. All matter is made up of atoms, and an atom
has a center, called a nucleus. The nucleus contains
positively charged particles called protons and un-
charged particles called neutrons. The nucleus of an
atom is surrounded by negatively charged particles
called electrons. The negative charge of an electron is
equal to the positive charge of a proton, and the number
of electrons in an atom is usually equal to the number
of protons. When the balancing force between protons
and electrons is upset by an outside force, an atom
may gain or lose an electron. When electrons are “lost”
from an atom, the free movement of these electrons
constitutes an electric current. For historical reasons,
electric current is said to flow from the most positive
part of a circuit to the most negative part. The electric
current thus defined is called conventional current. It is
now known that, depending on the conditions, an elec-
tric current can consist of a flow of charged particles
in either direction, or even in both directions at once.
The positive-to-negative convention is widely used to
simplify this situation.

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• The Breadboard

The breadboar is a device used to build circuits without

the need of soldering. In the central part all the pins
lined under a number are all connected while the ones
next to the coloured lines are connected horizontally.
By plugging components in the right holes, comples
circuits can be built and modified in the space of a few
minutes.

/* Basic Digital Read

* ------------------
• Reading a Pushbutton
*
* turns on and off a light emitting diode(LED) connected to digital
* pin 13, when pressing a pushbutton attached to pin 7. It illustrates the The pushbutton is a component that connects two
* concept of Active-Low, which consists in connecting buttons using a points in a circuit when you press it. The example turns
* 1K to 10K pull-up resistor. on an LED when you press the button.
*
* Created 1 December 2005 We connect three wires to the Arduino board. The first
* copyleft 2005 DojoDave <http://www.0j0.org>
goes from one leg of the pushbutton through a pull-up
* http://arduino.berlios.de
resistor (here 10 KOhms) to the 5 volt supply.
*
*/
The second goes from the corresponding leg of the
int ledPin = 13; // choose the pin for the LED
pushbutton to ground. The third connects the pushbut-
int inPin = 7; // choose the input pin (for a pushbutton) ton to a digital i/o pin (here pin 7) that reads the button’s
int val = 0; // variable for reading the pin status state.
void setup() {
pinMode(ledPin, OUTPUT); // declare LED as output When the pushbutton is open (unpressed) there is no
pinMode(inPin, INPUT); // declare pushbutton as input connection between the two legs of the pushbutton,
}
so the pin is connected to 5 volts (through the pull-up
void loop(){
resistor) and we read a HIGH. When the button is closed
val = digitalRead(inPin); // read input value
if (val == HIGH) { // check if the input is HIGH (button released)
(pressed), it makes a connection between its two legs,
digitalWrite(ledPin, LOW); // turn LED OFF
connecting the pin to ground, so that we read a LOW.
} else { (The pin is still connected to 5 volts, but the resistor in-
digitalWrite(ledPin, HIGH); // turn LED ON between them means that the pin is “closer” to ground.)
} (LOW=zero=FALSE, HIGH=one=TRUE)
}

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/* Analog Read Send

• Use the light sensor instead of the pushbut-
* ----------------
* turns on and off a light emitting diode(LED)
ton
connected to digital
* pin 13. The amount of time the LED will be on
and off depends on A LDR light sensor is a variable resistor. Notice, that in
* the value obtained by analogRead(). In the easi- this case we use a pull-up resistor (which means that
est case we connect
* a potentiometer to analog pin 2. Sends the data
it is located before the sensor). Still, we measure the
back to a computer voltage ‘between’ this resistor and the light sensor. The
* over the serial port. circuit on your breadboard should look something like
* Created 1 December 2005 in the picture besides.
* copyleft 2005 DojoDave <http://www.0j0.org>
* http://arduino.berlios.de
If everything is set up right, you can connect the board
*
to the serial (or USB) port of your computer and, if
*/
necessary, to the power supply.
int potPin = 2; // select the input pin for the
The more light the sensor receive the quicker is the
potentiometer
blinking of the LED.
int ledPin = 13; // select the pin for the LED
int val = 0; // variable to store the value
coming from the sensor With the function:
it’s possible to send numeric values
“Serial.println(val);”
void setup() { to the computer where your favourite software can read
pinMode(ledPin, OUTPUT); // declare the ledPin them and use the sensor.
as an OUTPUT
Serial.begin(9600); // use the serial port
to send the values back to the computer
}

void loop() {
val = analogRead(potPin); // read the value
from the sensor
Serial.println(val); // print the value
to the serial port
digitalWrite(ledPin, HIGH); // turn the ledPin
on
delay(val); // stop the program
for some time
digitalWrite(ledPin, LOW); // turn the ledPin
off
delay(val); // stop the program
for some time
}

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digitalWrite(ultraSoundSignal, LOW); // Send low pulse

• Complex sensors
delayMicroseconds(2); // Wait for 2 microseconds
digitalWrite(ultraSoundSignal, HIGH); // Send high pulse The PING range finder is an ultrasound sensor from
delayMicroseconds(5); // Wait for 5 microseconds Parallax able of detecting objects up to a 3 mts dis-
digitalWrite(ultraSoundSignal, LOW); // Holdoff tance. The sensor has 3 pins, two are dedicated to
power and ground while the third one is used both as
/* Listening for echo pulse
input and output.
*/
pinMode(ultraSoundSignal, INPUT); // Switch signalpin to input
The pin dedicated to reading has to be
val = digitalRead(ultraSoundSignal); // Append signal value to val
while(val == LOW) { // Loop until pin reads a high value
shifting configuration from input to output according
val = digitalRead(ultraSoundSignal); to the PING specification sheet. First we have to send
} a pulse that will make the sensor send an ultrasound
/* Ultrasound Sensor
tone and wait for an echo. Once the tone is received
* Reads values (00014-01199) from an ultrasound sensor (3m sensor)
while(val == HIGH) { // Loop until pin reads a high value back, the sensor will send a pulse over the same pin
* and writes the values to the serialport.
val = digitalRead(ultraSoundSignal); as earlier. The width of that pulse will determine the
timecount = timecount +1; // Count echo pulse time
* distance to the object.
}
* http://www.xlab.se | http://www.0j0.org
* copyleft 2005 Mackie for XLAB | DojoDave for DojoCorp
*/
/* Writing out values to the serial port The example shown here was assembled by Marcus
*/ Hannerstig, while the software was created by David
int ultraSoundSignal = 7; // Ultrasound signal pin Cuartielles.
ultrasoundValue = timecount; // Append echo pulse time to ultra-
int val = 0;
soundValue
int ultrasoundValue = 0;
int timecount = 0; // Echo counter
serialWrite(‘A’); // Example identifier for the sensor
int ledPin = 13; // LED connected to digital pin 13
printInteger(ultrasoundValue);
serialWrite(10);
void setup() {
serialWrite(13);
beginSerial(9600); // Sets the baud rate to 9600
pinMode(ledPin, OUTPUT); // Sets the digital pin as
/* Lite up LED if any value is passed by the echo pulse
output
*/
}

if(timecount > 0){

void loop() {
digitalWrite(ledPin, HIGH);
timecount = 0;
}
val = 0;
pinMode(ultraSoundSignal, OUTPUT); // Switch signalpin to output
/* Delay of program
*/
/* Send low-high-low pulse to activate the trigger pulse of the
sensor delay(100);

*/ }

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• Talking to software

Arduino “talks”, transmits data in Serial format, so any

other program/programming language that has serial
capabilities can easily comunicate with Arduino. Some
programs (like Flash) don’t natively speak Serial but
they can still communicate with Arduino through an
intermidiary, that like a translator enables them to talk
to each other. Read through the specific sections and
you will find references on how to interface Arduino with
every possible software that has been connected so far.

With the function (as in the light sensor exercise):

Serial.println(val);

the software is able to receive a digital value from the

sensor. This value is then easily usable in other pro-
gramming software like PD, VVVV,Max,..
The different patches to communicate between Arduino
and the other programmes are available to download in
the playground section at www.arduino.cc

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final prototype
After everybody managed to get all the different exer-
cises working people divide into group of 2-3 people and
develop together an interactive prototype.

David and Massimo made a list of possible prototype

that they tested people is able to realize with the
knowledge acquired during the workshop.

Everybody need to use a particular sensor then it’s up

to them if they want it to combine it with other
technologies and software.

Here some example of project realized:

• A cocktail-shaker that lights up some green LEDs

when the drink is ready.

• A toothbruch that through a dysplys says to you if you

are brushing your teeth at the right speed.

• A catching-timer that works by setting the time bend-

ing it on one side to set the time and on the other to let
the time count down start.

• A bath that change the lights, the music and lights up

a fan according to the water temperature.

• A musical instrument, a flute, that creates sintetised

sound and instead of reacting to the air been blowed,
reacts to the light and different pressure of the buttons.

• A LED lamps that lights up when you go nearer to it.

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 Credits
idlab
Massimo Banzi
Ailadi Cortelletti

partner
David Cuartielles

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